Archive for Mind Games
December 12, 2007 at 8:44 pm · Filed under Brain games, Brain teasers, Brain Training, Mind Games, Pattern Recognition, Visual Illusion ·Tagged attention, brain, Brain games, Brain teasers, illusions, logic, memory, Mind Games, puzzles, Stress, the brain
It is always good to stimulate our minds and to learn a bit about how our brain works. Here you have a selection of the 50 Brain Teasers and Games that people have enjoyed the most in our brain fitness blog and speaking engagements.
Fun experiments on how our brains work
1. Do you think you know the colors?: try the Stroop Test.
2. Can you count?: Basketball attention experiment (Interactive).
3. Who is this?: A very important little guy (Interactive).
4. How is this possible?.
5. Take the Senses Challenge (Interactive). Read the rest of this entry »
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July 21, 2007 at 11:55 am · Filed under Aging, Brain exercises, Brain Fitness, Brain games, Brain health, Brain Training, Casual Games, HappyNeuron, Health & Wellness, Lumosity, Mental Health, Mind Fitness, Mind Games, Nintendo Brain, Serious Games, Women's Health
Can you beef up your brain with video games?
MSNBC -Jul 20, 2007
“In 2005, Nintendo struck gaming gold when it created “Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day” for the handheld Nintendo DS game machine. …”
See more at Nintendo BrainAge, Happy Neuron, Lumosity, MyBrainTrainer…
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July 16, 2007 at 1:37 pm · Filed under Brain Fitness, Brain games, Brain Training, Brain-based Learning, Casual Games, Mind Games, Nintendo Brain, Serious Games
10-Second Review: ‘Brain Games’
Rockford Register Star, IL
By Thomas V. Bona This is a great sampler of puzzles, from familiar crossword and Sudoku to the intimidating but intriguing Kaidoku, for people who want to…”
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July 6, 2007 at 8:55 am · Filed under Brain games, Brain teasers, Casual Games, emWave, HeartMath, IntelliGym, Learning, Lifelong learning, Mental flexibility, Mind Games, MindFit, Nintendo Brain, Posit Science, RoboMemo, Serious Games, Vigorous Mind, Working memory
Who Said Games Had To Be Fun?
Kotaku.com, NY -Jul 1, 2007
“In a stark counterpoint to the Slate editorial entitled ‘World of Borecraft,’ Gamasutra has their own feature – this one on the rise of serious games and …”
To support the point: we see more and more science-based “serious games” used for brain training to improve cognitive skills: MindFit and Posit Science, Cogmed, Basketball IntelliGym, emWave in Golf Digest. And more are coming. You can keep informed by reading our brain health blog and Brain Fitness Topics section.
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June 25, 2007 at 10:46 pm · Filed under Aging, Biofeedback, Brain Fitness, Brain games, Brain Training, Brain-based Learning, Corporate Training, Emotions, emWave, Freeze-Framer, Health & Wellness, HeartMath, meditation, Mental flexibility, Mental Health, Mind Fitness, Mind Games, Mind/Body, Positive Psychology, Resiliency, Self-regulation, Serious Games, Stress, Women's Health
Check out the new emWave Stress Relief (previously called Freeze-Framer), an easy-to-use, Windows-based software and biofeedback hardware program for Stress Management that measures your Heart Rate Variability through a finger or ear-clip sensor that plugs into your computer. The program, developed by HeartMath, translates the information into user-friendly graphics displayed on your computer monitor in real-time. emWave PC allows you to track your progress and has interactive games and stunning images that emit varying degrees of color and movement as you adjust your emotional state and get into The Zone of optimal learning and performance. Check out the limited time offer!
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May 29, 2007 at 11:02 pm · Filed under Brain games, Brain teasers, Brain Training, Casual Games, Mind Games
Here is new brain teaser written by puzzle master Wes Carroll.
The Really, Really, Really Big Number
Difficulty: HARDER
Type: MATH (Numerical/Abstract)
Intimidation Factor: HIGH — but don’t be scared!
Question:
When you divide 12 by 5, the remainder is 2; it’s what’s left over after you have removed all the 5s from the 12. When you raise 4 to the fifth power (that is, 45), you multiply four by itself five times: 4×4×4×4×4, which equals 1,024.
What is the remainder when you divide 100100 by 11?
Click to read the Solution and Explanation.
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May 5, 2007 at 4:44 pm · Filed under Biology, Brain Fitness, Brain health, Mind Games, Neuropsychology, Peak Performance, Self-regulation
A Losing Battle
Washington Post
- “…University, education professor and sports psychologist Leonard Zaichkowsky is helping to conduct a study of how elite athletes’ brain chemistry responds to winning and losing. Zaichkowsky will partner with Canadian sports psychologist Hap Davis, an adviser to…
- Davis, with the help of cognitive neuroscientist Mario Liotti at Simon Fraser University, studied the brains of 14 swimmers who failed to make the 2004 Canadian Olympic team. As the swimmers watched clips of themselves failing, the parahippocampus, the area implicated in cases of severe depression, lit up. In other words, the brain of an elite athlete who has lost “really resembles the head of a depressed person,” Zaichkowsky says. Also, the premotor cortex, the region that plans motor actions, appeared inhibited. This suggested that athletes who have lost might have a tendency to perform poorly again — potentially leading to what we would call a “slump.”
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April 28, 2007 at 9:10 am · Filed under Aging, Attention and ADD/ ADHD, Biofeedback, Brain exercises, Brain Fitness, Brain games, Brain health, Brain teasers, Brain Training, Brain-based Learning, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Training, Education, Emotions, Events, Glossary, Health & Wellness, Learning, Lifelong learning, meditation, Memory Training, Mental flexibility, Mental Health, Mind Fitness, Mind Games, Mind/Body, Neurogenesis, Neuropsychology, Neurotechnology, Nutrition, Peak Performance, Physical Fitness, Positive Psychology, Self-regulation, Serious Games, Stress, Women's Health, Working memory
Announcement:
- We have just launched a new website section titled Hot Topics for you to be informed on latest Brain Fitness developments. Topics include Memory, Brain Fitness, Brain Teasers, Mental Exercise, Stress Management, Physical Exercise, Nutrition, News, Products, Events, Students, Science, Resources, and more.
Some good posts:
- Nintendo BrainAge, Lumosity, Happy Neuron, MyBrainTrainer…
- Posit Science, Nintendo Brain Training, Dakim…WebMD on Brain Fitness.
We hope to hear from you!
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